"In Africa, HIV/AIDS education, to be effective, must surmount a number of debilitating social hypocrisies. Take Kenya, where a government census of the country’s gay male population is planned for 2010. Officials there hope that, armed with new knowledge, they will more effectively debunk a widely held belief among gay men that unprotected sex is actually safer than sex with a condom. Data collectors face but one obstacle: Homosexuality in Kenya is a crime punishable with jail time. Recognizing the difficulty of top-down HIV/AIDS education in Africa, one NGO is taking a grassroots approach to teaching young people about the importance of regular testing. Its grass just happens to be rooted on a soccer pitch. Since 2005, Kick4Life has used soccer as a medium for encouraging testing and education among young adults in the tiny Southern African nation of Lesotho, where one in four people lives with HIV — the third-highest prevalence in the world." - Ebru Baranseli from Bookmarklet